Observations on sulphureous fumigations, as a powerful remedy in rheumatism and diseases of the skin / by William Wallace.

  • Wallace, William.
Date:
1820
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    deration ; who immediately transmitted it, with the following letter, to the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Paris, 17th of July, 1814. The Minister of the Home Department, to the Members, composing the Faculty of Meditine of Paris. Gentlemen—Dr. Gales has been led by his studies and re- searches, respecting the nature of scabies, to make use of sul: phereous fumigations for its cure. In consequence of the success which attended the first expe- riments on this mode of treatment, the Council of Administra- tion of the Hospitals of Paris thought proper to appoint a spe- cial jury to examine and ascertain its effects. This jury, composed of M. M. Pinel, Dubois, Esparron, Tartra, and Bouillon-la-grange, observed, for two months with the greatest care, experiments made with sulphureous fumiga- tions, upon about sixty individuals attacked with scabies and other cutaneous diseases. Almost all the individuals, submitted to these experiments, have been completely cured ; and the Jury has formed the most fovourable conclusions respecting the utility of th's mode of treatment. The General Council of Administration of Hospitals decided, in consequence of the report of the jury, to establish, at the Hospital St.Louis, fumigating apparatuses for the treatment of extern patients, labouring under scabies, and other diseases of the skin; and the Prefect of the Department of the Seine has requested me to recommend this physician to the notice of Government, and to order the publication of the report, and of a memoir describing his method of cure, for the purpose of making it known to the entire empire. Notwithstanding the confidence, which must be reposed in results testified by such men as those who composed the jury, I am not willing, Gentlemen, to give to this process, and the report of the success which accompanied it, the publicity re- quested, before I obtain your opinion upon this success, and upon the conclusions which have been drawn from it.